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Makes perfect sense to me. Because GL is open source, it can be easily self hosted, which is great for data residency compliance, or specialized security needs.

• devoutsalsa 5y ago
  Self hosting is never easy. If you nerf the GitLab database by doing something unsupported or because of a bug, good luck with that. Source: an employer of mine nerfed the GitLab database and support to fix it was not an option, so we had to migrate to their cloud offering.
  • mritzmann 5y ago
    Self hosting GitLab = Run 1 single Docker Container. Very easy.
  • polskibus 5y ago
    It’s mostly a matter of backups. Only pick self hosted if you can back it up reliably every night.
  • __turbobrew__ 5y ago
    The gitlab omnibus installation has built in support for backups. Literally just run a single command to create a backup on a network share. Not having backups for gitlab on prem is just lazy system administration.
    • devoutsalsa 5y ago
      It wasn't a problem of losing the DB. The database got corrupted some how. All of the backups eventually became corrupted. This prevented us from upgrading from some version to some other version.